Princess Yang watched Qiu Lulan and his party walk away proudly, thinking of the tens of thousands of taels of silver tickets that had been lost just now, her heart couldn't stop hurting, and she couldn't help but say to Qiu Mengmin: "She has the queen to protect her, and we also have the queen mother to call the shots!" Why spend this money to buy her to settle things?! ”

"What do you know?!" Qiu Mengmin's eyes were gloomy, his eyes were full of gloom, and he said coldly, "In the matter of the Qu Shan family, our family has fallen into the hands of the Jiang family, and the Li family is indeed well aware of what happened to his mother when she was expelled back then, and she was still waiting when the concubine removed her mother's name from the family tree-now that we enter the palace, we will definitely fall behind!" ”

“…… What about after the Lantern Festival? Princess Yang was stunned for a moment and asked worriedly.

Qiu Mengmin said hesitantly: "Knowing that the Qu Shan family is not dead, my mother and I began to prepare to deal with the Li family. Anyway, there are still a few days left in the court, and it is always in time. There is nothing to take a step back today, and she is cleaned up at the court meeting, and I am afraid that I will not be able to take it back with interest? ! ”

Hatred flashed in Princess Yang's eyes, and she nodded heavily: "Just this little cheap. You can't afford to pay what you owe us these days! I want the kid surnamed Ruan, and the Fang Ruan clan who received her dowry list thousands of miles away - all pay the price! ”

"Pay the price?" In the General's Mansion, Ruan Qingyan forced his eyes to look at his flattering cousin Qiu Yulan, sneered, and pointed to the 10,000 taels of silver tickets on the table and said, "At the beginning, Princess Yang didn't even send someone to the General's Mansion to check my identity for 5,000 taels of silver, so she agreed to let me enter the house to send my aunt to the end!" This family is extremely greedy and stingy! You actually blackmailed them for 10,000 taels of silver - and dare to tell me that you are making them pay for their stupidity?! Have you thought about the consequences of doing this?!!! ”

In the end, Ruan Qingyan simply roared!

Qiu Yulan's face was full of shame, and he said fluently: "Yes, cousin, I was wrong, I shouldn't be optimistic about the IQ of Xihe Palace, in case they poison me in anger, then I will be a sheep in the mouth of a wolf!" I should come back and talk to you and let you do it...... No, no, no, it's up to you to call the shots and listen to you! I was really wrong! ”

"I am your only sister, the only relative besides my grandfather! I shouldn't have let you worry about me and my grandfather grieve! I should always put my own safety first and always remember that I am the one who has a cousin! Always remember that I don't need to charge into battle every time......"

She finished saying all the things Ruan Qingyan thought of and didn't expect in one breath, and then asked bitterly, "Cousin, are you willing to forgive me now?" The little beauty who had just reached Ruan Qingyan's shoulders stood timidly in front of him, and her knee-length hair was still a little wet when she got out of the bath, fluffy and fluffy draped behind her head, like a gorgeous big coat, showing her slender waist that was not in her hand, weak like a water lotus flower in the swaying wind.

Bai Shengsheng's fingers were still hooking the corners of Ruan Qingyan's sleeves, shaking back and forth, the big and bright peach blossom eyes blinked, and the watery eyes were so pitiful and cunning.

Ruan Qingyan called a Baiwei Chen Za: I want to scold her, first, I am reluctant to talk about it, and second, she has said it herself; I want to hit her, such a big girl, even if you lightly attack her, I'm afraid it will lose her face - the more I think about it, the more powerless I become!

After weighing left and right, shoot the case: "Go and copy "The Female Rule" 800 times!! ”

Then he was stunned by Qiu Lan - this unconscious cousin turned his face like turning a book, immediately let go of his sleeve, turned his head and shouted at Su He: "Go and buy me a few catties of arsenic and come back to bibimbap!" I can't live this day!! ”

So, why is one crying, two troubles, and three hangings summed up as women's ultimate skills?!

Because this is the essence of victory built over the years on the corpses of countless defeated people!

Seeing Ruan Qingyan defeated again, Qiu Yulan smiled proudly and leaned in to appease: "Cousin, don't be angry!" Didn't I come back well anyway? Qiu Mengmin can't let go of Wang Jue at all, how dare he break the net with me? You see that it will be the Lantern Festival soon, and then there will be the court meeting - when the court will cut his prince, we will have to worry a lot in the future, you think about the happy things! ”

Ruan Qingyan said coldly: "Don't underestimate Qiu Mengmin too much, if he doesn't have any skills, he will force my aunt to not be able to hold me up?!" ”

Qiu Yulan was stunned: "The mother knows that you are coming?" ”

“…… I mean, according to my aunt's age, she left last year, which is very undeserved, and it can be seen that she is doing a very bad life. Ruan Qingyan paused for a moment and said calmly, "It shows Qiu Mengmin's wrist!" ”

Qiu Yulan said: "This is no way, the mother concubine is just one of my children, but I am not a son!" Qiu Mengmin inherited the title of the prince and can be in charge, he is older than my father Wang, and he is bringing his wife and children, and calling his biological mother and sister's family back, there are many people, how can the mother and concubine fight? ”

Ruan Qingyan raised his hand and touched her head, and said warmly: "There are many people who are powerful, but the city government cannot be ignored!" Is it true that if there are more people, you must win? So what's more important than the number of people? In short, don't be complacent just because you blackmailed him a sum of money today! This person is harder to deal with than you think! Got it!? ”

"Got it!" Qiu Yulan said obediently.

…… Sent away Ruan Qingyan, Su He, who accompanied Qiu Lulan who was bullied by the Xihe Palace, was still immersed in the joy of today's victory, and came over happily and asked: "County Lord, are we going to the Xihe Palace?" Obviously, she became addicted to Qiu Mengmin after brushing it once.

Qiu Yulan nodded solemnly: "Of course I want to go!" and sixteen thousand taels of silver. ”

Su He Daxi: "Really?!" Then he wondered, "Why is it sixteen thousand taels and not twenty thousand taels?" "Isn't it usually a whole number?

Qiu Yulan stopped wanting to come up and persuade his spring and summer dye, picked up the two silver tickets on the table, put them in Su He's hand, and said: "Because you are going to the Xihe Palace, the other courtyard of the Qin State Mansion next door, give this silver to General Jiang Xiao!" Without General Jiang's help, how could there be such a good thing that a few words could earn 16,000 taels a day? As General Jiang Xiao, I shouldn't want it, at least not all of it, but giving it all to him shows that we don't forget our roots-you go and come back quickly tomorrow! ”

"......" Su He was speechless, and Chun Ran and Xia Ran covered their mouths and smiled.

The next day, Jiang Yashuang really didn't ask for it all, and only collected a fraction of 6,000 taels. In this regard, Qiu Yulan was relieved: "In his identity, he categorically did not take money and do nothing, he took this money, no matter how much, he will definitely stand on our side when it comes to these two sums of money." ”

In the next few days, everything was fine, and in a blink of an eye, it was the Lantern Festival.

Probably because after the Lantern Festival, the Queen Mother Party and the Queen Party were going to fight head-on in the court, and the preparations for the festival were delayed.

Ruan Qingyan and Qiu Yulan guarded General Ruan and didn't go out, but they heard that the people who went out to join in the fun came back and said that this year's Lantern Festival was not very lively.

"It shows the intensity of this court!" The annual leave of Darui officialdom is from the winter solstice to the Lantern Festival, and the usual rule is to go to court every double and have a holiday every single day - the next day of the Lantern Festival is the sixteenth day of the first month, which happens to be the period of the last dynasty. Early in the morning, Ruan Qingyan got up and saw the heavy snow outside, without the joy of Ruixue Zhaofeng New Year, but felt that the sky was full of haze, thinking of the Lantern Festival described by the next person last night, and his mood was very heavy.

Qiu Yulan comforted him: "It is a fact that Qiu Mengmin disrespects the concubine, and no matter how fierce it is, it can't cover it up!" ”

"......," Ruan Qingyan sighed, "I should have let me expose this if I knew you!" Now I know that you made a fuss, and I don't know if I have a chance to reply for you? ”

Qiu Yulan was stunned: "You want to go too?!" ”

Ruan Qingyan was even more surprised than her: "Do you want to go alone?!" ”

"But cousin, your current fame is not enough to go to court, right?!" Of course, Qiu Yulan thinks that he will go to the court alone to unveil this battle between the two queens - but it is not alone, the queen party is an internal ally!

Ruan Qingyan reminded: "You say that I have something to do with this, right?" ”

“…… But what do you have to do with it? This is the Qiu family's business! Qiu Yulan said bitterly, "The beginning of February is spring, and this month is less than a month, don't you want to read?" ”

"You were involved in the dispute between the two queens, and I can read the book at home?!" Ruan Qingyan asked rhetorically, "And if I want to rely on this month's light to study to be on the list, what else will I do?!" ”

"It's not fast to grind the gun!" Qiu Yulan said sincerely, "Your attitude towards the exam is not right!" ”

Ruan Qingyan didn't bother to pay attention to her, and said, "When Qiu Mengmin 'self-harmed', I wasn't there?!" ”

“…… Are you sure the palace people are willing to let you into the palace for this?! Qiu Yulan said wistfully, "And even if you are sure of the end, you should consider Lord Xue's mood - what if he deliberately deposes you because you are involved in this matter?" ”

"Then he will offend the queen." Ruan Qingyan said lightly, "At most, he can't be cultivated as a confidant disciple!" Isn't it the same as having a backer to take refuge in Queen Jiang? ”

So Ruan Qingyan really relied on "witnessing King Xihe's self-harm and coercion of his cousin Ning Yi County Lord" and sneaked into the palace gate......

They are not qualified to go to court like the ministers, and when they are summoned to the Funing Palace, the opening remarks have already passed, and they have already entered the formal meat drama - so when they step into the threshold, they can feel the turbulent atmosphere of the saber-rattling undercurrent in the golden and brilliant palace!

The two brothers and sisters led the Qu Shan family to meet the Empress Dowager Gu, the Emperor, and the Empress Jiang without squinting, only to notice that Qiu Mengmin was listed among the nobles, with an expressionless face. And Princess Yang, Mrs. Lu, and several people with heads and faces in the Xihe Palace, were all summoned in first.

Except for Princess Yang, who had an edict, everyone else knelt and occupied the place on the right side of Danqi.

Qiu Lulan and his entourage can naturally only choose the left side - the left and right sides of the throne are just opposite to the Dan Qi looking down, so that Qiu Lulan and his party look up and see Empress Jiang sitting on the right side of the emperor; And Princess Yang, they raised their heads to look up at the Empress Dowager Gu on the left side of the throne - the distinction between Jing and Wei was clear, like two armies arrayed!

In contrast, there are many people behind Princess Yang, but Qiu Yulan's side is more imposing - because Ruan Qingyan has a fame, and the royal front is also qualified to stand with her. In this way, Princess Yang was standing there alone-if Qiu Mengmin didn't accompany her, she would look weak.

However, the civil and military forces on both sides are like clouds, and it is difficult to say which side has more people at this moment.

After Qiu Lulan and his party were placed on the left side of the Danqi, on the top of the Danqi, a delicate-eyed chamberlain came out, shook off the dust, and raised his voice: "The county lord of Ningyi and the heir of the old general Ruan, Sun Ruan Qingyan, and the old servant of the concubine of Xihe have all been brought, if you have any questions, you can start asking now." ”

After finishing speaking, he shook off the dust again and retreated behind Queen Jiang.

Like the sound of the starting gun, the originally silent Manchu Dynasty civil and military buzzed for a moment.

After a while, an official in a dark green official uniform and a silver belt walked out from the side of the civil official, poked at Qiu Yulan, and shouted: "As a niece, I don't remember the kindness of my uncle and aunt to raise and cultivate, and I slander the innocent by the elders in vain, and I am humbled by the above crimes!" It can be described as disloyal, unfilial piety, unkindness and injustice, and it is simply inferior to a beast - the minister thinks that the Qiu clan is not worthy of being the county lord at all! Not even worthy of standing here! ”